Les Craig is a former CIA officer turned venture capitalist at Next Frontier Capital who brings a national security lens to assessing founders and technologies, which is unusual in mainstream VC. He's also known as one of the visible evangelists for building venture-scale companies specifically in Montana and the broader Northern Rockies region, hosting "Found in the Rockies" podcast and regularly speaking about investing strategies for the Mountain West. Les Craig is a former CIA officer turned venture capitalist at Next Frontier Capital who brings a national security lens to assessing founders and technologies, which is unusual in mainstream VC. He's also known as one of the visible evangelists for building venture-scale companies specifically in Montana and the broader Northern Rockies region, hosting "Found in the Rockies" podcast and regularly speaking about investing strategies for the Mountain West.